Category: Sales

Small cars and SUVs, together with a continued strong demand for light commercials, have driven Australia’s new vehicle market to a record October sales result, according to data released by the motor industry’s official statistical service, VFACTS. October sales reached…

Following a 2016 report that showed Australia has the greatest ratio per capita of new Ferrari owners, the Italian icon plans to almost double its presence down under by the end of 2018. Australia has even outstripped China and oil-rich…

It’s been a tough few years if you were selling Commodores and Falcons, as the rise of the SUV has been accompanied by an increase in the number of luxury vehicles sold. A slowing of that growth in the first…

Australia’s motor industry has now posted five months of record sales for 2017, with August the fourth successive month of record gains and the highest August outcome on record, according to the motor industry’s official statistical service, VFACTS. The August…

Internet giant Amazon could soon sell cars online in the UK after trialling the enterprise in Italy. It is believed that selling cars online in the UK is the first step in Amazon’s plan to move into the European automotive…

The US retail automotive industry has suffered a fourth consecutive monthly drop in sales. The six largest auto manufacturers missed analysts’ estimates in April, with Ford Motor and Honda Motor reporting the sharpest declines. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV’s New York-traded…

For the first time ever, Tesla has overtaken Ford and General Motors in terms of market value. That makes Elon Musk’s electric-vehicle producer the auto manufacturer with the biggest market capitalisation in the United States. The company, however, is not…

Australia’s new motor vehicle sales achieved a best-ever monthly result in June, according to the motor industry’s statistical service VFACTS. June sales hit a new monthly record high of 134,171, an increase of 4.4 percent to surpass the previous best…

With 24 per cent of millennials planning to buy a car within the next 12 months and the demographic expected to make up 46 per cent of the workforce by 2020, they are the group to target. That’s one of…

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